Woman from Kherson Testified to US Lawmakers about Russian War Crimes

At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, a 57-year-old Ukrainian woman from Kherson testified about war crimes committed by the Russian Federation.

As CNN reports, a woman named Lyubov said that Russian soldiers beat her, threatened to rape her and forced her to dig her own grave.

16-year-old Roman was forcibly transferred to Russia and placed with a family who attempted to indoctrinate him. These are just some of the tens of thousands of incidents of war crimes alleged to be committed by the Russians since their invasion of Ukraine last year.

At the request of the Ukrainians, the committee did not disclose their names.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, who also testified at the hearing, said his office registered around 80,000 incidents of potential war crimes and to date, has convicted 31 Russians for war crimes in Ukrainian courts.

"These are more than war crimes. These are more than crimes against humanity. What we are witnessing in Ukraine is genocide," Committee Chair Michael McCaul said in his opening statement.

On April 17, US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment (Ukr) of former career Justice Department prosecutor and former chief prosecutor for the special court in The Hague, Jack Smith, to serve as Special Counsel to oversee two ongoing criminal investigations.

In addition, with the support of Eurojust, a Joint Investigative Group was established to gather evidence and investigate major international crimes committed in Ukraine. The Joint Investigation Team includes the International Criminal Court, Ukraine, as well as Lithuania, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania and Estonia.

The International Centre for the Investigation of Crimes of Russian Aggression against Ukraine should start working in The Hague in late spring, which will unite prosecutors to prepare future cases for prosecuting the crime of aggression against Ukraine.

In an interview with EuroPravda, Anton Korynevych, the main representative of Ukraine in matters related to the international legal prosecution of the Russian Federation, talked about how the Russian Federation should be prosecuted for its crime of aggression.